Spunk. As in `He’s pretty spunky`.

So we have grown tired of the Gadaffi political puppet and are now taking action to oust him. Well done modern world. How long before we are taking action against the so called `Rebels` when they have turned against us?

What I don’t understand is why the so called `Rebels` are any better than the so called `Government`.

If we didn’t seek to get in bed with these dictators for our own personal gains (oil, territory, political influence, military gain) then maybe we wouldn’t be constantly trying to mop up the mess. Or maybe we like to have out military fingers in lots of arab pies? Arms sales, military proving ground, local alienation of arab nations etc.

The memorial in Reading to the Afganistan war during the 18 hundreds suggests this will go on for a lonf time yet.

Isn’t this going to suffer the same fate as the flying car.
You’ll need a Pilots licence to fly it. A car licence to drive it. A boat licence to sail it. Probably a wind licence to blow it. A trailer licence to drag it.

Can you also include year of manufacture and manufacturer please.
So as not to confuse Vietnam Corsair with WW2 Corsair etc.
This will also prevent possible Car enthusiasts replying.

When I was a kid I had one of those old Stereo Record Players with two large speakers, When taxi cabs, Fire Engines, Police or Ambulances pulled up out side I could here them clearly through the speakers even when the Stereo was off and unplugged.

That aircraft is a time capsule and a piece of archaeology. It should be preserved in the condition it’s in now.

Thanks for all your replies, I think 🙂

To pull this thread back on track.
If we go back to the original Falklands war the UK was not in a dissimilar position than it is today. Wasn’t there a recession in the 80’s?. The Vulcan was being mothballed. The Ark Royal had only just been scrapped.
When Argentina invaded the Falklands we were not equipped to fight the war. But we did have enougth equipment to devise a response, a cobbled together response, which succeeded.

What I was trying to debate was IF Argentina decided to have another go. Entirely hypothetical as I hope Argentian is now friendly, and war is folly. However if they did could we respond as we did in the 80’s. The equipment we used then is now gone with nothing of similar effort to replace it.

If it did happen what would we do?

BTW I’m a Brit and not anti UK or Argentina. I’m just interested in what could happen as history has showed us the `no chance` scenarios often do happen, and the `no chance` responses do often succeed.

Cheers.